Battery drain this quick normal?
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SSWHRB Watch was fully charged on Monday night.
I did a 3 hour hike on Tuesday with 1s recording (Glonass off) & Bluetooth off. This cost me 40% battery life, 96% to 56%.
Gym Wednesday for an hour, obviously no GPS, Bluetooth Off. Not sure what it dropped to.
Thursday afternoon 13:00 hrs. Battery at 38%. Trail run for 1hr 17 minutes. with 1s recording (Glonass Off) & no Bluetooth. Battery drained to 17%.
Seems a little too fast, but maybe I’m wrong?
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Maybe yes, or maybe no … depends on the watch … that we don’t know which is
is 24/7 enabled ?
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@sartoric Sorry I edited above, it’s the SSWHRB Stealth, and yes 24/7 is enabled.
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@Darren_M
I suppose you have sleep monitor too , correct ?
So it looks normal (not bad) to me.It lasted almost 5 days with 24/7 enabled, doing several activities and using GPS too for more than 4 hours.
Are you using gps best quality ?
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@Darren_M Hello, I noticed the same issue since the last update, my watch is Spartan Baro, I am almost formating the watch to see if its really some issue in the last update.
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@Darren_M My last activity took about 4 hours and I was using GPS set as good, in the end the battery was 30% only.
I think its not a GPS issue because I noticed that very high consumption even during day to day, my HR 24/7 and sleep tracking is off, only notifications has been used. -
@sartoric No sleep tracking! GPS Best (not GOOD as previously stated) and with 1 Sec recording.
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@Regis-Fucítalo I don’t get excessive battery drain when not in GPS mode. However, what I never have active is Bluetooth, because I don’t bother with notifications. Therefore, is it your Bluetooth that’s causing the excessive battery drain, or do you have backlight on standby?
My issue is centered purely around GPS recording and it’s that my watch lasts nowhere near the duration Suunto claims it should in certain modes. Having said that, lies, or should I say misleading claims in the tech sector aren’t exactly uncommon, so maybe I should just expect it!
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@Darren_M Well, I always used notifications, since when I bought the watch and it never drain the battery, I already change the configuration about backlight but kept the same behavior.
I was reading some comments about it and they said to try to drain the battery to the end and then charge it again to recalibrate, I’ll try. But the battery consumption during the activity with GPS on is still worse as yours. -
Drain watch battery to dead and charge it to 100% battery needs calibration. If that won’t work reset watch to factory default.
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@SlaSh do we understand how the watch develops this issue in the first place? Is it due to the update process, or something else?
Thanks!
Also I only just did a factory reset, due to a HR issue. I believe at this moment that like Garmin watches often do, when a factory reset is performed, the current issue goes away and a new problem often shows up.
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@Darren_M the biggest battery drainers are GPS and OHRM, for me looks like normal.
I am not from suunto support so cannot comment why this happens, but from battery calibration issue lots of electronic devices are suffering time from time, but not all of them are having strategies how to deal with it. -
I second that, happens with many electronic devices from time to time…at least that is also my experience.
@SlaSh said in Battery drain this quick normal?:
@Darren_M the biggest battery drainers are GPS and OHRM, for me looks like normal.
I am not from suunto support so cannot comment why this happens, but from battery calibration issue lots of electronic devices are suffering time from time, but not all of them are having strategies how to deal with it. -
I let my battery drain dead and charged it again but the behavior kept the same, yesterday I used the watch only 3 hous in GPS mode (good) and it went to 48%. My watch is new, only 4 months and I don’t believe its related to hardware or battery issue. Well, I’ll open a ticket on customer support.
